>>15775500Britain used to have its own unique food culture before it got replaced by American hamburgers.
Prawn cocktail: a seafood dish consisting of shelled, cooked prawns in a Marie Rose sauce or cocktail sauce, served in a glass
Steak garni with chips: steak garnished with fries
Black Forest gâteau: a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling
Prawn cocktail, steak garni with chips, and Black Forest gâteau was the most popular dinner menu in British restaurants in the 1980s. It was especially associated with the Berni Inn chain which popularized mass-market dining out after the end of food rationing in Britain, following the Second World War. The meal was nicknamed as the Great British Meal Out.
The Great British Meal Out was a meal in a restaurant designed to appeal to those for whom eating out at all was unusual and for whom a prawn cocktail, steak garni or gateau were exotic foreign food. The standardized menu suited the restaurant, who could purchase and prepare food in bulk within tight cost controls, and avoided the need for the customer to choose courses from a menu which might include foods with which they were unfamiliar or which might include hard to pronounce foreign words, both of which had the potential to cause social embarrassment.
The ingredients of the meal had a pleasantly sophisticated ring: "cocktail", the use of prawns, which was not common, "steak garni" rather than just steak, and "Black Forest gâteau" rather than just cake; all slightly foreign but easy enough to learn for next time, and allowing the diner to feel that they were enjoying a "continental" (European) eating experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn_cocktail,_steak_and_Black_Forest_gateau 
